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By their first hurried calculations, the cops guessed that Rubino had been grossing $500,000 a year-plus $81.80 a month in relief money, which he had drawn from the city during all his months of using its hospital.
By the time Sam Maceo died of cancer recently, the Maceos were civic figures, big businessmen, heavy contributors to charities. This year, Serio estimated, their firm was grossing more than $3,500,000.
Stern Bros, moved uptown to its eight-story store on Manhattan's bustling 42nd Street in 1913, thoughtfully included a carriage entrance in the rear to accommodate the Astors and the Vanderbilts who lived on nearby Fifth Avenue. Both the carriage entrance and most of the carriage trade are...
The grocer will have to do a mountain of paper work. He will have to recalculate his prices every Monday, to account for changes in wholesale costs the week before. And the order is rigged to protect the smaller, often less efficient, storekeeper. Retail markups run on a sliding scale...
The brothers plugged their cut-rate bargains in huge newspaper ads, set up their own jobber to buy as cheaply as possible from manufacturers. Said Ike to one competitor: "If you want to put us out of business, go ahead and try. Goodbye." By 1929 the two Katz stores were...